Tragedy Quotes
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.
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The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
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The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
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How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy Whitfield, which made everything very difficult and pushed back.
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There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or tragedy, you try to mix it up within that. You can work on a comedy and it's not laugh-a-minute off set. You can work on a tragedy that's absolutely hilarious.
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
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Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
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We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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In terms of human lives lost, it is the tragedy of the decade for Mexico. It's a very serious situation for the country.
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Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
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I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
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There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
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Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
